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1486264

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Telecommunications: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to encourage collaborative and constructive negotiations and agreements for rights to install telecommunications apparatus.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Daly
uin	30203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill contains measures to encourage the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms, which are specifically aimed at encouraging more collaborative and constructive negotiations.</p><p>However, the government recognises that legislation is not the only way in which better collaboration can be achieved. Officials from my department have held monthly Access to Land Workshops over the last 12-18 months, which cover a number of workstreams and attract attendance from stakeholders across the telecommunications industry, including site provider representatives. I am pleased to say that these workshops have made excellent progress and one of the outputs of this work is the creation of a new industry body, which in time will continue this work independently of DCMS.</p><p>I understand that this body will be called the National Connectivity Alliance and that so far it has appointed a steering group of 24 members from across all parts of the telecommunications sector. It aims to bring together stakeholders from across the telecommunications industry to discuss issues of mutual interest, to improve collaboration and understanding and to be a forum where members can share best practice.</p><p>I welcome this development and fully support the creation of this body and wish them every success for the future. I hope that site providers and the telecommunications industry share my sentiments and will work together to ensure its success.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 11/07/2022 13:19:48 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1486268

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support Openreach to reopen their Community Fibre Partnership applications.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Daly
uin	30204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>Building Digital UK (BDUK) has been in frequent communication with Openreach to assist with their review of their Fibre Community Partnership (FCP) scheme and to support them in reopening the scheme as soon as possible. BDUK is also continuing to work through existing high priority FCP projects that have been submitted to the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme as suggested and sequenced by Openreach.</p><p>Communities that are interested in the FCP scheme can register their contact details on the <a href="https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-community-partnership" target="_blank">Openreach website</a> to receive a notification once the scheme has been reopened to new applications.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 11/07/2022 13:17:12 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1484719

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on making pectus surgery available as a treatment on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Daly
uin	27762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>There are a range of surgical and non-surgical treatments available through the National Health Service in England to manage pectus deformity and individuals may be referred to a thoracic surgical clinic for advice. Treatment options are determined by an assessment of the type of pectus deformity, degree of deformity, simple versus mixed deformity and whether the deformity is isolated or part of a syndrome. <br> <br> In most cases, while surgery can correct the chest wall deformity, surgical intervention does not take place. The majority of people experience only mild physical or psychological symptoms associated with having a pectus deformity. In these cases, non-surgical options include posture, exercise programmes, bracing and psychological support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 07/07/2022 15:24:30 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1464970

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has plans to reinstate hard shoulders on SMART motorways.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Daly
uin	6960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2022 answer text <p>In November 2021, the Transport Select Committee published its Third Report of Session 2021-22 following its inquiry into the rollout and safety of smart motorways. The Committee agreed that the Government was right to focus on upgrading the safety of All Lane Running (ALR) smart motorways rather than reinstating the hard shoulder, which the Committee recognised could put more drivers and passengers at risk of death or serious injury on our roads.</p><p> </p><p>Having carefully considered the Committee’s report, the Department is taking forward all its recommendations. This includes pausing the roll-out of ALR smart motorway schemes yet to commence construction until five years of safety data is available for ALR smart motorways introduced before 2020. We are continuing to act to make sure all existing ALR smart motorways are as safe as possible with over £900m being invested, including for the construction of additional emergency areas and the roll-out of Stopped Vehicle Detection technology across existing ALR motorways.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 31/05/2022 10:34:00 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1464971

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to help ensure that high street bank branches remain open.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Daly
uin	6961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of appropriate access to banking. However, decisions on opening and closing branches are a commercial decision for banks and building societies.</p><p /><p>The largest banks and building societies have been signed up to the Access to Banking Standard since 2017, which commits them to ensure that customers are well informed about branch closures, the bank’s reasons for closure and options for continued access to banking services.</p><p /><p>Guidance from the Financial Conduct Authority also sets out its expectation of firms when they are deciding to reduce their physical branches or the number of free-to-use ATMs. Firms are expected to carefully consider the impact of planned branch closures on their customers’ everyday banking and cash access needs and consider possible alternative access arrangements. This ensures that the implementation of closure decisions is undertaken in a way that treats customers fairly.</p><p /><p>Alternative options for access can be via telephone banking, through digital means such as mobile or online banking, and the Post Office. The Post Office Banking Framework allows 99% of personal banking and 95% of business banking customers to deposit cheques, check their balance and withdraw and deposit cash at 11,500 Post Office branches in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 26/05/2022 10:16:37 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1433828

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Flood Control: Bury North
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding his Department has provided for the improvement flood defences in Bury North constituency.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Daly
uin	126873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>Defra has provided £26.43 million for the improvement of flood defences in Bury North. This is the capital investment in flood risk management schemes/projects covering the period from 2012 – 2023.</p><p> </p><p>£15.19 million of this was spent up to March 2021, £11.24 million has been allocated in the current financial year, and £2.6 million is allocated in the programme for 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/02/2022 17:41:58 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1420862

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Innovation and Science: Regional Planning and Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to harness science and innovation for the purposes of the Government’s levelling up agenda.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Daly
uin	120957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2022 answer text <p>The Levelling Up White Paper sets out how we will maximise the contribution of innovation to levelling up by building on existing and emerging strengths across the country. This includes a commitment to increase public investment in R&amp;D outside the Greater South East by at least one third over the Spending Review period and at least 40 percent by 2030; making levelling up one of the objectives of our R&amp;D investment strategy and aiming for the regions outside the Greater South East to receive at least 55% of BEIS’ R&amp;D budget by 2024/25; and investing £100 million as part of piloting new Innovation Accelerators supporting three UK city regions to become major, globally competitive centres for research and innovation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 17/02/2022 08:39:40 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1420863

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Nuclear Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to deliver new nuclear power.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Daly
uin	120958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2022 answer text <p>This Government is committed to nuclear power as part of the country’s future diverse energy mix. Hinkley Point C is under construction and, when operational, will supply 3.2GW of secure, low carbon electricity for around 60 years, providing enough power for around 6 million homes. The Government is in constructive negotiations over Sizewell C in Suffolk. To further develop the project, the Government entered into a Combined Option agreement of £100 million with EDF on 27<sup>th</sup> January.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also announced a £385million Advanced Nuclear Fund. From this, £210million has been awarded to Rolls-Royce SMR to develop their small modular reactor design and their continued advanced modular reactor development. The Government also announced a new £120 million Nuclear Enabling Fund to provide targeted support to address barriers to entry for future nuclear. Further details on the fund will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Later this year, the Government will publish a nuclear roadmap setting out the government’s strategy in more detail. The Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill is currently in Parliament. This will introduce a Regulated Asset Base model for nuclear projects and reduce the obstacles to financing new nuclear projects.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 14/02/2022 13:44:14 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1401380

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to tackle online child sexual abuse and exploitation.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Daly
uin	100734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government is firmly committed to tackling this horrific crime and keeping our children safe online here in the UK and working with partners around the world to address this complex and evolving threat.</p><p>The UK’s Online Safety Bill will, for the first time, place a duty on tech companies to keep their users safe, with a greater responsibility to remove and limit the spread of illegal content. We are also engaging with tech companies through our international partners to keep children safe from online sexual abuse, securing agreement to a G7 action plan which includes driving greater endorsement of the Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and to take meaningful action to report against progress.</p><p>We are also continuing to work with law enforcement partners to improve technologies and capabilities to identify offending and bringing offenders to justice. This includes significant investment into the transformation of the Child Abuse Image Database programme, and the National Crime Agency resulting in an estimated 800 arrests or voluntary attendances, and an estimated 1,000 children safeguarded or protected every month.</p><p>We are determined to deliver on the commitments to tackling this horrific complex crime and we will continue to work with partners to achieve our goals as set out in the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy published in January 2021.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 14/01/2022 17:16:18 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1401428

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Air Pollution: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what air quality monitoring data his Department has received from (a) the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and (b) each borough within the Greater Manchester region in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Daly
uin	100735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>The UK Air website provides data from monitoring sites within the Greater Manchester region, including locally managed sites and sites managed by DEFRA. This data is accessible through the data selector tool, found through the following URL:</p><p><a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/interactive-map?network=nondefraaqmon" target="_blank">https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/interactive-map?network=nondefraaqmon</a></p><p> </p><p>An interactive map of monitoring sites in the UK provides information on all the monitoring sites in the Greater Manchester region, and can be accessed through the following URL:</p><p><a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/datawarehouse" target="_blank">https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/datawarehouse</a></p><p> </p><p>The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) submit to Defra a single Annual Status Report via The Greater Manchester Air Quality Working Group, led by Transport for Greater Manchester, representing the ten authorities that constitute the GMCA – Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan. The Annual Status Report submitted in 2021 (covering 2020) can be viewed on the GMCA website via the URL below.</p><p><a href="https://secure.manchester.gov.uk/downloads/download/4166/air_quality_reports" target="_blank">https://secure.manchester.gov.uk/downloads/download/4166/air_quality_reports</a></p><p> </p><p>This report includes the air quality monitoring data for 2020. Data for 2021 will be submitted as part of this years’ Annual Status Report expected later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 17/01/2022 14:04:04 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly